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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2008
Kim Limpahan Balahan, Dumaguete, PH;
Mark Henry Perez DE Leon, Bataan, PH;
Roderick Fulgueras Jabello, Sagay, PH;
Arnold Alberto Peregrino, Cagayan de Oro, PH;
John Anthony Schmidt, Lexington, KY (US);
Kim Limpahan Balahan, Dumaguete, PH;
Mark Henry Perez De Leon, Bataan, PH;
Roderick Fulgueras Jabello, Sagay, PH;
Arnold Alberto Peregrino, Cagayan de Oro, PH;
John Anthony Schmidt, Lexington, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A media handling device includes a media shingling mechanism having a roller actuator located adjacent an upper portion of a media stack and upstream thereof relative to a predetermined direction of an uppermost sheet from the stack toward a media restraint dam located downstream thereof. The roller actuator undergoes counterclockwise rotation in response to upward moving contact by successive sheets in the upper portion of the stack against a peripheral segment of the roller actuator as the stack is moved vertically upward in a rectilinear direction toward the roller actuator. The counterclockwise rotation of the roller actuator and upward movement of the upper portion of the stack produces a lateral displacement of successive sheets toward the dam so as to produce shingling of successive sheets of the upper portion of the stack relative to one another, providing a uniform inter-page gap between successive sheets.